Improvement in devices for mending blind-slats



N. HOTZ.

DEVICE F011 MENDING BLIND-SLAM.

No.185,179. Patented Dec.1z,1a7s.

TN E GRAPHIC CDJLY UNITED STATES PATENT @EETGE NICHOLAS HOTZ, OFBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR MENDING BLIND-SLATS.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,179, dated December12, 1876 application tiled May 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, NICHOLAS Horz, ofBrooklyn, in the county ot' Kings and State ot' New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Device for Mending Blind-Slats;and I do hereby declare that the following is at'ull, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art towhich it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a blind-slat with my improved device connectedthereto 5 Figs. 2 and 3, detached views.

Great annoyance has been occasioned by the slats of blinds becomingdisplaced on account of the breaking ot' the wooden pivots formed on theends of the slats, which frequently results from defects in the grain ofthe wood, or the rotting of the same, and from many other causes.

1t is the object and purpose of the present invention to Vprovide asimple and cheap device that may take the place of the wooden pivotofthe slat when broken, and which may be readily attached to the endofthe slat. The invention, therefore, consists in. a plate, stamped orotherwise formed from a single piece of suitable metal, with one or morespurs, which are afterward bent up, to provide a means by which the samemay be attached to the blind-slat, and two lips that are bent around toform the pivot, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a blind-slat ofthe ordinaryconstruction, formed at one end With the common wooden pivot a, and tothe other end is attached my improved device, as represented at B, whichtakes the place of the wooden pivot, when broken. The device, as will heseen by reference to Fig. 2 ofthe drawings, is stamped, or may beotherwise formed ot' a single piece of sheet metal, with one or morespurs. I), and a plate, c, with lips d. After having been .thus stampedor cut from the metal, the spur or spurs b are bent up at right anglesto the plate c, and the lips d bent around in cylindrical form, thusforming a pivot, which takes the place of the wooden pivot of the slatwhen it becomes broken.

In attaching my improved device to the end ot' the slat, the spur orspurs a are driven through the same, and afterward clinched upon theother side.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the device B, for mending hlind-slats,consisting of the plate c, with spur or spurs b and lips d,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention I affix mysignature in presence of two Witnesses.

NICHOLAS HOTZ. Witnesses:

WM. HARsEN, CHAUNOY PERRY.

